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This week's episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, and Sidekick Media Services and listeners like you at www.patreon.com/awesomecast Dudders was busy “defending” her 2PW Kicking Cancer's Ass Championship this weekend!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdP0bpNZQF0 Video games: New games announced at The Game Awards like Baldur's Gate 3 winning Game of the Year; updates on games like Sonic Frontiers and Devil May Cry Sega is bringing back classics like Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Streets of Rage and Golden Axe remakes! https://kotaku.com/sega-new-trailers-game-awards-crazy-taxis-jet-set-radio-1851082994 Gaming tech: Using Steam Link to play PC games on TVs/devices around your house; using Xbox Remote Play app to play Xbox on Android TVshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/353380/Steam_Link/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grill.xbxplay The end of annual gaming event E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo). But nothing can kill the Adult Entertainment Expohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2023/12/12/e3-permanently-canceled/ Raspberry Pi accessories and projects from Vilros websitewww.vilros.com Google's new Notebook LM service for organizing notes/documents and asking AI questions about the contenthttps://notebooklm.google/ The WeCroak app that sends reminders about mortality 5 times per day Subscribe to the Podcast: awesomecast.com Sorgatron Media Podcast Network Feed: sorgatronmedia.fireside.fm Join our AwesomeCast Facebook Group to see what we're sharing and to join the discussion! You can support the show at Patreon.com/awesomecast! Special Thanks to kidmental for the new AwesomeCast Sounds! Visit him at www.kidmental.com Join our live show Tuesdays around 7:00 PM EST on AwesomeCast Facebook, Youtube and Sorgatron Media Twitch!

This week's episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, and Sidekick Media Services and listeners like you at www.patreon.com/awesomecast Dudders was busy “defending” her 2PW Kicking Cancer's Ass Championship this weekend!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdP0bpNZQF0 Video games: New games announced at The Game Awards like Baldur's Gate 3 winning Game of the Year; updates on games like Sonic Frontiers and Devil May Cry Sega is bringing back classics like Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Streets of Rage and Golden Axe remakes! https://kotaku.com/sega-new-trailers-game-awards-crazy-taxis-jet-set-radio-1851082994 Gaming tech: Using Steam Link to play PC games on TVs/devices around your house; using Xbox Remote Play app to play Xbox on Android TVshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/353380/Steam_Link/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grill.xbxplay The end of annual gaming event E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo). But nothing can kill the Adult Entertainment Expohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2023/12/12/e3-permanently-canceled/ Raspberry Pi accessories and projects from Vilros websitewww.vilros.com Google's new Notebook LM service for organizing notes/documents and asking AI questions about the contenthttps://notebooklm.google/ The WeCroak app that sends reminders about mortality 5 times per day Subscribe to the Podcast: awesomecast.com Sorgatron Media Podcast Network Feed: sorgatronmedia.fireside.fm Join our AwesomeCast Facebook Group to see what we're sharing and to join the discussion! You can support the show at Patreon.com/awesomecast! Special Thanks to kidmental for the new AwesomeCast Sounds! Visit him at www.kidmental.com Join our live show Tuesdays around 7:00 PM EST on AwesomeCast Facebook, Youtube and Sorgatron Media Twitch!

Misinformation researcher Joan Donovan accuses Harvard of bowing to Facebook Meet Gemini AI, Google's ChatGPT Killer The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI How Elon Musk and Larry Page's AI Debate Led to OpenAI and an Industry Boom Beeper Cloud and Product Roadmap Update Spotify Cancels Two Acclaimed Podcasts — 'Heavyweight,' 'Stolen' Salt-Hank Gordon Ramsey duet!! Google's Gemini AI model is coming to the Pixel 8 Pro for recording summaries and smart replies Do you know what 'rizz' is?? It's Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year. Rob Reiner Remembers Norman Lear: We've Lost 'a Real Champion of America' Linda Yaccarino's Very Unmerry X Mess Picks of the week (Paris) WeCroak, a great app for the fun nihilists (Paris) 10 years of The Information! How Jessica Lessin's The Information Has Survived a Decade of Media Tumult (Jeff) Pornography websites will have to check users' ages, under draft UK guidelines (Jeff) AI-powered pickleball calls Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit kolide.com/twig Melissa.com/twit

Misinformation researcher Joan Donovan accuses Harvard of bowing to Facebook Meet Gemini AI, Google's ChatGPT Killer The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI How Elon Musk and Larry Page's AI Debate Led to OpenAI and an Industry Boom Beeper Cloud and Product Roadmap Update Spotify Cancels Two Acclaimed Podcasts — 'Heavyweight,' 'Stolen' Salt-Hank Gordon Ramsey duet!! Google's Gemini AI model is coming to the Pixel 8 Pro for recording summaries and smart replies Do you know what 'rizz' is?? It's Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year. Rob Reiner Remembers Norman Lear: We've Lost 'a Real Champion of America' Linda Yaccarino's Very Unmerry X Mess Picks of the week (Paris) WeCroak, a great app for the fun nihilists (Paris) 10 years of The Information! How Jessica Lessin's The Information Has Survived a Decade of Media Tumult (Jeff) Pornography websites will have to check users' ages, under draft UK guidelines (Jeff) AI-powered pickleball calls Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit kolide.com/twig Melissa.com/twit

Misinformation researcher Joan Donovan accuses Harvard of bowing to Facebook Meet Gemini AI, Google's ChatGPT Killer The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI How Elon Musk and Larry Page's AI Debate Led to OpenAI and an Industry Boom Beeper Cloud and Product Roadmap Update Spotify Cancels Two Acclaimed Podcasts — 'Heavyweight,' 'Stolen' Salt-Hank Gordon Ramsey duet!! Google's Gemini AI model is coming to the Pixel 8 Pro for recording summaries and smart replies Do you know what 'rizz' is?? It's Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year. Rob Reiner Remembers Norman Lear: We've Lost 'a Real Champion of America' Linda Yaccarino's Very Unmerry X Mess Picks of the week (Paris) WeCroak, a great app for the fun nihilists (Paris) 10 years of The Information! How Jessica Lessin's The Information Has Survived a Decade of Media Tumult (Jeff) Pornography websites will have to check users' ages, under draft UK guidelines (Jeff) AI-powered pickleball calls Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit kolide.com/twig Melissa.com/twit

Misinformation researcher Joan Donovan accuses Harvard of bowing to Facebook Meet Gemini AI, Google's ChatGPT Killer The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI How Elon Musk and Larry Page's AI Debate Led to OpenAI and an Industry Boom Beeper Cloud and Product Roadmap Update Spotify Cancels Two Acclaimed Podcasts — 'Heavyweight,' 'Stolen' Salt-Hank Gordon Ramsey duet!! Google's Gemini AI model is coming to the Pixel 8 Pro for recording summaries and smart replies Do you know what 'rizz' is?? It's Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year. Rob Reiner Remembers Norman Lear: We've Lost 'a Real Champion of America' Linda Yaccarino's Very Unmerry X Mess Picks of the week (Paris) WeCroak, a great app for the fun nihilists (Paris) 10 years of The Information! How Jessica Lessin's The Information Has Survived a Decade of Media Tumult (Jeff) Pornography websites will have to check users' ages, under draft UK guidelines (Jeff) AI-powered pickleball calls Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit kolide.com/twig Melissa.com/twit

Misinformation researcher Joan Donovan accuses Harvard of bowing to Facebook Meet Gemini AI, Google's ChatGPT Killer The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI How Elon Musk and Larry Page's AI Debate Led to OpenAI and an Industry Boom Beeper Cloud and Product Roadmap Update Spotify Cancels Two Acclaimed Podcasts — 'Heavyweight,' 'Stolen' Salt-Hank Gordon Ramsey duet!! Google's Gemini AI model is coming to the Pixel 8 Pro for recording summaries and smart replies Do you know what 'rizz' is?? It's Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year. Rob Reiner Remembers Norman Lear: We've Lost 'a Real Champion of America' Linda Yaccarino's Very Unmerry X Mess Picks of the week (Paris) WeCroak, a great app for the fun nihilists (Paris) 10 years of The Information! How Jessica Lessin's The Information Has Survived a Decade of Media Tumult (Jeff) Pornography websites will have to check users' ages, under draft UK guidelines (Jeff) AI-powered pickleball calls Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit kolide.com/twig Melissa.com/twit

Misinformation researcher Joan Donovan accuses Harvard of bowing to Facebook Meet Gemini AI, Google's ChatGPT Killer The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI How Elon Musk and Larry Page's AI Debate Led to OpenAI and an Industry Boom Beeper Cloud and Product Roadmap Update Spotify Cancels Two Acclaimed Podcasts — 'Heavyweight,' 'Stolen' Salt-Hank Gordon Ramsey duet!! Google's Gemini AI model is coming to the Pixel 8 Pro for recording summaries and smart replies Do you know what 'rizz' is?? It's Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year. Rob Reiner Remembers Norman Lear: We've Lost 'a Real Champion of America' Linda Yaccarino's Very Unmerry X Mess Picks of the week (Paris) WeCroak, a great app for the fun nihilists (Paris) 10 years of The Information! How Jessica Lessin's The Information Has Survived a Decade of Media Tumult (Jeff) Pornography websites will have to check users' ages, under draft UK guidelines (Jeff) AI-powered pickleball calls Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit kolide.com/twig Melissa.com/twit

KI wird immer besser darin, Menschen und ihre Eigenheiten zu imitieren - auch Menschen, die nicht mehr leben. Das verändert nicht nur die Filmindustrie, sondern auch die Art, wie wir mit Tod und Trauer umgehen. Über die Hosts: Gregor Schmalzried ist freier Tech-Journalist, u.a. für den Bayerischen Rundfunk und Brand Eins. Fritz Espenlaub ist Journalist und Moderator beim Bayerischen Rundfunk und 1E9. In dieser Folge: 00:00 Intro 01:21 Von Pumuckl bis James Dean: Leben Promis bald für immer? 05:57 Wie verändern neue Technologien unser Verhältnis zum Tod? 09:36 Kann KI beim Trauern helfen? 14:57 Es kann auch viel schiefgehen 19:33 Was haben wir diese Woche mit KI gemacht? Redaktion und Mitarbeit: David Beck, Cristina Cletiu, Chris Eckardt, Fritz Espenlaub, Marie Kilg, Mark Kleber, Hendrik Loven, Gudrun Riedl, Christian Schiffer, Gregor Schmalzried Links und Quellen: Neue Geschichten vom Pumuckl (Trailer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ofee7jwc1M Die brasilianische Sängerin Elis Regina durch KI "wieder zum Leben erweckt": https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/14/brazil-singer-elis-regina-artificial-intelligence-volkswagen Es Asners interaktive Trauerfeier: https://www.axios.com/2022/07/13/artificial-intelligence-chatbots-dead-relatives-grandma Alexa liest mit Stimme der verstorbenen Großmutter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22cb24-sGhg&t=3758s App "WeCroak": https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kkitcreations.wecroak&hl=de&gl=US&pli=1 Kontakt: Wir freuen uns über Fragen und Kommentare an podcast@br.de. Unterstützt uns: Wenn euch dieser Podcast gefällt, freuen wir uns über eine Bewertung auf eurer liebsten Podcast-Plattform. Abonniert den KI-Podcast in der ARD Audiothek oder wo immer ihr eure Podcasts hört, um keine Episode zu verpassen. Und empfehlt uns gerne weiter!

Season 5, Episode 7: WeCroak Has A Baby: The Social Stomach App Hansa and Ian, the guys who brought the world WeCroak, announce their second app called Social Stomach. It's an app for waking up to the power of social eating, one of the simplest lifestyle changes you can make, besides contemplating death often, to […]

The WeCroak app is inspired by a Bhutanese folk saying: to be a happy person, one must contemplate death five times daily. This week the fellas are joined by Hansa Bergwall, the Co-founder of the WeCroak App and host of the WeCroak Podcast. Each day, WeCroak will send you five invitations to stop and think about death. The invitations come at random times and at any moment, just like death. When they come, you can open the app to reveal a quote about death from a poet, philosopher, or notable thinker. Here's the latest quote from my app - Jer: "As it is with a play, so it is with life — what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is." -Seneca

The WeCroak app is inspired by a Bhutanese folk saying: to be a happy person, one must contemplate death five times daily. This week the fellas are joined by Hansa Bergwall, the Co-founder of the WeCroak App and host of the WeCroak Podcast. Each day, WeCroak will send you five invitations to stop and think about death. The invitations come at random times and at any moment, just like death. When they come, you can open the app to reveal a quote about death from a poet, philosopher, or notable thinker. Here's the latest quote from my app - Jer: "As it is with a play, so it is with life — what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is." -Seneca

An app that reminds you that you're going to die...

In this episode, Kevin had the opportunity to talk with Hasna Bergwall, the co-founder of the WeCroak app that encourages people to lead happier lives by thinking about death five times a day. 1.WeCroak is a smartphone app based on the Bhutanese principle that to live a happy life; one must meditate on one's own death five times a day 2. Because after all, we're all going to die. No one gets out of this alive. 3. Life is short and precious, rare and special, and we want to use it well. 4. They mentioned what they love about death; it is universal because we're all going to die. 5. A quote about death from Epictetus, “I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it.” 6. One of the things, both Buddhism and stoicism, is an absolute agreement on the danger of anger, just like creating delusions.

Recently Jane saw a post from her friend Kimberly of Morbid Curiosity talking about an app she enjoyed, called WeCroak. Of course, Jane was curious and started following WeCroak on Twitter. She sent a private message to them asking if they wanted to come on the show, the response back was, “Sure, we love talking about death.” Jane welcomes Hansa Bergwall on the show who co-created WeCroak with Ian Thomas. The app is inspired by a Bhutanese folk saying: to be a happy person, one must contemplate death five times daily. The show covers mindfulness and happiness and through death contemplation and meditation. Hansa delivered one of the most humorous answers to Jane's favorite question, what's in The Next Room? It's an inspired show surrounding the recollection of death and a practice of kindness as we contemplate our morality this week on The Next Room! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nuovo episodio di LINK, la rubrica di Hacking Creativity che vi porta alla scoperta di link e news sulla creatività.Oggi parliamo di Retro Games (e di dove giocarli online), di Britney Spears (#freebritney) e della Netflix del Vaticano (sì, avete letto bene).Poi discutiamo di documentari sportivi, di Creator Economy (investimenti delle piattaforme e pericolo bolla) e capiamo anche come rimorchiano gli Youtuber.E infine ci perdiamo su app e siti con miliardi di contenuti per creativi, scopriamo come trasformare un vecchio negozio Blockbuster in un Airbnb e proviamo un'app che ci ricorda cinque volte al giorno che moriremo (!).Per ritrovare tutti i link della puntata - belli ordinati, e con un po' di approfondimenti - iscriviti agli "appunti di Hacking Creativity", la nostra newsletter. Super facile, basta cliccare qui: http://eepurl.com/hfac7n▫️ Mandaci un messaggio o un vocale su Instagram con i tuoi link: https://bit.ly/2HVP8D4▫️ Se vuoi puoi anche scriverci: info@hacking-creativity.com▫️ Una recensione su Apple Podcasts non la lasciamo? https://apple.co/3le1TqK

Here's the rest of the amazing interview with Chelsea Quint! In this episode, Chelsea goes into detail about her somatic journaling method and the healing that can come by getting your body involved. We also talk about death and dying, and Chelsea introduces me to the app "WeCroak" which of course I've put on my phone! Y'all come on in! OUR GUEST Chelsea Quint is a healer, writer, and conscious business mentor helping folx ditch toxic programming so they can live their legacies right here, right now. Check out Chelsea's website at http://chelseaquint.com/ and her podcast is called "Live Your Legacy with Chelsea Quint". CONTACT MELA Facebook & Instagram @bellebookcandlesc Youtube under Belle, Book & Candle Become a patron www.patreon.com/bellebookcandle Or, if you'd rather, you can buy Mela a coffee! www.buymeacoffee.com/bellebookcandle CREDITS My dad wrote the lyrics to my theme song, and we sing it together at the beginning. Thanks to my husband for his contributions. Thank you to our guest, Chelsea Quint. Original Broadcast: 4.22.21 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bellebookcandle/message

Sharon Stewart is a ordained Pagan minister with Circle Sanctuary and a death midwife. Sharon and I talk about the ins and outs of death midwifery, as well as sharing our stories of honoring dead loved ones. CW: This is a very in-depth discussion of death and dying with numerous personal reminiscences. Sharon's recommendations: Go Wish cards (gowish.org) and the Death Deck (thedeathdeck.com) My recommendation: WeCroak app (wecroak.com) available for Apple and Android phones. Sharon's contacts: Website: http://www.spiritknoll.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpiritKnoll Email: sharon@spiritknoll.com Phone (608) 574-2997 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/middleagedbabypagan Instagram: @middleagedbabypagan. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aaroncoveypodcasts Email: middleagedbaby@yahoo.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Joining Mark this week are:Scott BossmanMike ZainoTeria HarrisErik PetersonScott ToddListen in as they go around the table and discuss geeky tools that can be used to set up a website and landing page and where you can hire someone who is able to create a website for you.TIP OF THE WEEKTeria: A pin-point for us, especially when we're hiring new VAs is coming up with the catchy deal of the week, email titles. There's this new company called Swifter HQ that will generate email titles for you. It's not a new company, they're offering this new service I should say. But, what I like about it, it asks a lot of questions like what type of communication is this going to be: business to business, business to your clients or customers; you got to choose the product of your brand, you got to provide the description of what's the email is going to be about, and you choose what type of email: friendly, bold or professional. And the, it will build several variations of the email title. They are offering it for free for now, you have to sign-up for an account.Mark: My tip of the week is an app called WeCroak; it is based on a thing called Bhutan ritual, they are the happiest country in the world, it is a reminder that we are mortal and it gives you a quote of your mortality.Are you ready to learn more about land investing? Just click HERE to schedule a call.Isn't it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want, and with whomever you want?

In Ritual we review the recent self-help book ‘The Power of Ritual’, and ask how is tech shaped by ritual? And rituals changed by tech? With companies like Headspace, WeCroak and SoulCycle, how is spirituality commodified, and how do we notice it happening? What are the rituals we have gained and lost in lockdown? Plus we talk about self-help, self-care, and rest as resistance. Full footnotes are available at: https://www.theintersectionofthings.com/episodes/ep-23-ritual Find us: Intersection of Things: @thingsintersect www.theintersectionofthings.com

Highlights: The inspiration and features of the WeCroak appHow contemplating mortality helps us accept what we mustThe art of curating great quotes about our own impermanence "I like this quote from Friedrich Nietzsche, as you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back at you." - Hansa Bergwall Connect with Hansa Bergwall Connect with host Edward Tay

Today is RelatABLE Thursday!If you heard the announcement at the beginning of the episode click below to book your call!https://calendly.com/brianalmeida/discoverablecallIn today's episode I discuss something we all have to deal with, but don't necessarily want to discuss. Death is an uncomfortable subject, but it can provide a ton of great perspective.Death is not something that is comfortable to talk about it, and I can't say even for myself that I'm 100% comfortable. What I have become comfortable with is the fact that it's an inevitable part of life. This has provided a ton of perspective and made me really think about my priorities. I've been forced to think about my legacy, and what I truly want out of life. An app that I downloaded about a year ago called WeCroak completely shifted my thoughts on death, because the reminder it provides brings it to top of mind and keeps you present. The other reasons I think it's important we start to have discussions around it is so loved ones know what we expect when it's our time. Rather than them suffering even more because they're not sure about your choices surrounding care and treatment. All I know is that it might be difficult to think about and discuss, but it gets easier with time and is well worth it.For more information on your host Brian Almeida:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-almeida/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebealmeida/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brian.almeida.731 

The girls are back at it again! Season 3 is dedicated to all of the big changes we face as we get older, and how to handle it all like an "adult", whatever that means. This weeks episode is surrounded around the biggest change of all. Yup, we're talking about death. Now, we know the idea of death can immediately instill fear in some of us. Fear of the unknown is real. But lets face it, death is a change we all have to go through and experience no matter what. So why not talk about it and turn it into something positive? Turn it into a constant mindset we have so we can live more in the moment. To help us achieve this, we go into different aspects of death. We discuss our traditional ways and opinions on how we prepare for death. We look up a few ways other cultures deal with death. The ideas we have on what happens after pass. And we even share some stories from people who have technically died for a quick period of time and then came back to life. What they saw and how they felt. It gets super interesting! We also talk about the theory that thinking about death at least 5 times a day promotes happiness, according to Bhutan culture. And if you feel like contemplating this thought will help you live a more exciting life, the app Dali shared is called WeCroak. Check it out! And remember to live like you're dying! (Cause you are).Also, we know we promised you a 5 min wine down this week and we're so sorry we couldn't give you one. But blame COVID-19 not us! Corona doesn't want us to be great! Oh hey! And don't forget to LIKE, COMMENT, and SUBSCRIBE to join our Adult Family!Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @areweadultingyetpodcast and use the hashtag #TASKAWAY to let us know what you think. Or if you have suggestions of any future tasks you want us to try to wipe off the map, feel free to comment or DM, or email us!Also, we are currently taking any suggestions for any future guest appearances on the show. So if you feel like you or someone you know may be a good fit for the show, HIT US UP!areweadultingyet@gmail.comWanna follow the hosts on IG?!@daliconpique@quuujayyy

Agency growth is good — unless it’s unfocused and out of control. If you aren't setting personal and professional boundaries for yourself, your agency, and your relationships with clients, it’s easy to get pushed around and totally lose track of your growth strategy. Karl Sakas helps agency owners conquer their growing pains so they can increase their profits and reduce their stress. As a management consultant and executive coach at Sakas and Company, Karl has personally advised hundreds of agencies on every inhabited continent. He is the author of Made to Lead, The In-Demand Marketing Agency, and more than 350 articles on agency management.  In this episode, Karl helps you confront the barriers you’ll need to face to grow your agency, explains why you can never stop marketing, and digs into his Agency Satisfaction Index which identifies “The Four Stages of Client Relationships”. Tune in to learn how to: Manage power dynamics within clients. Identify if your marketing approaches are actually connecting you with your ideal clients. Set realistic expectations for yourself, your team, and your clients. Connect with Karl on Twitter, LinkedIn, or at Sakas and Company. Subscribe to his newsletter by clicking here! Get a free copy of his eBook Don’t Just Make the Logo Bigger: Taking Clients from Painful to Profitable when you sign up for his free agency business tips. You can also access here his Agency Satisfaction Index and the Client Ranking Index. Karl has given us a TON of resources based on this epic chat. Browse the links here for references and tools for conquering those agency growing pains! Agency 101: How to start a marketing agency Feeling trapped? How to escape the Agency Doldrums Avoid the "feast or famine" cycle 37 sales tips to grow your agency Extreme Referencing: Be sure they're the best candidate Think, Teach, Do: A more-strategic way to think about your agency's services Why you allow scope creep... and how to stop How to Fire Bad Clients Setting client boundaries: Reason-Options-Choose (R-O-C) Become a "Strategy-First" agency WeCroak mobile app

Our guest this week is Alicia Menendez, an award-winning journalist, who finds herself in a common position for many women: caring way too much about what others think of her. Be nice, but not too nice. Be successful, but not too successful. Just be likeable, whatever that means. In the workplace strong women are often criticized for being cold, while warm women may be seen as pushovers. In her just released book, The Likeability Trap, and in our conversation, she discusses this issue and explains how and why both men and women should combat it. Plug Zone The Likeability Trap: https://www.amazon.com/Likeability-Trap-Break-Free-Worth/dp/0062838768 Website: http://aliciamenendez.com/ Twitter: @AliciaMenendez Instagram: @aliciamenendezxo Facebook: @AliciaMenendezTV An Evening with Joseph Goldstein and Dan Harris: Staying Sane in a Crazy World https://www.nyimc.org/event/an-evening-with-joseph-goldstein-and-dan-harris-staying-sane-in-a-crazy-world/ Episode References Psychological Safety / What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html THE FIVE INVITATIONS: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully https://fiveinvitations.com/the-book/ WeCroak: https://www.wecroak.com/ Ten Percent Happier Podcast Insiders Feedback Group: https://10percenthappier.typeform.com/to/vHz4q4 Have a question for Dan? Leave us a voicemail: 646-883-8326

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Thinking about death is one of the best ways to appreciate life. As we round out season 1 with this last episode, we want to leave you with some thoughts on mortality. Isabel has been attending death cafes in the DC area and Meronne has been attending a number of funerals and these have helped us both think about life and the funeral industry and how we commemorate people's lives. There is a saying in Bhutanese culture that goes: to be a happy person, one must contemplate death five times daily. We agree. Find a Death Cafe near you: https://deathcafe.com/ WeCroak app that reminds of your mortality 5 times daily: https://www.wecroak.com/ Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Season 2, Episode 7: The WeCroak Guys  WeCroak Co-Founder Ian Thomas joins your host Hansa Bergwall to discuss all the death news that’s fit to croak about. We talk Kara Swisher, problems in tech, changes coming to the app, Hansa’s overwhelm finishing a book, and some interesting obits.  Support WeCroak on Patreon Download our app, as […]

WeCroak co-founder Hansa Bergwall talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his mobile app, which reminds users of death five times a day.  In this episode: Why thinking about death is good for you; how WeCroak got started; the “Emily Dickinson test”; why it’s called WeCroak; why Bergwall and his co-founder avoided ads and social media hooks; you’re going to die, but "do whatever you want” with that information; Steve Jobs’ speech about death; how the misguided ways we think about death affect our whole lives; Silicon Valley’s deluded attempts to cheat death; why almost every form of meditation can be “abused”; Kara’s favorite death quotes; and why WeCroak doesn’t talk about the afterlife. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hansa Bergwall is the creator of a new app called "WeCroak". Out of his own personal meditation practice, he determined that death contemplation could be beneficial, not just for him, but for many people.      Note: A Life and Death Conversation is produced for the ear. The optimal experience will come from listening to it. We provide the transcript as a way to easily navigate to a particular section and for those who would like to follow along using the text. We strongly encourage you to listen to the audio which allows you to hear the full emotional impact of the show. A combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers generates transcripts which may contain errors. The corresponding audio should be checked before quoting in print. Contact You can download the app from your iPhone or Android device. You can also visit Hansa's website to learn more and download his app. WeCroak website Transcript Dr. Bob: So, Hansa, I'm totally curious about this. What prompted you to put an app out there that is going to notify people several times a day to think about death? What was the impetus for that? It's fascinating to me. How did that all come about? Hansa Bergwall: So I'm a daily meditator and have been for a while now. And regular death contemplation is actually a really millennia old part of most serious meditation practices. So that's how I first got ... I learned about some of these ideas. And some of them are pretty intense, much more intense than what I'm doing, meditating in [inaudible 00:01:19] grounds, where bodies decompose as a way of laying them to rest, to know about your impermanent nature. Stuff that would be hard to do today living in New York City. Hansa Bergwall: And then I came across the Bhutanese formulation of the practice that was, one, recommended for everyone and just really simple. It was just think about it five times a day that you're impermanent, that one day you will die. And you must do that in order to be a happy person. Immediately, it appealed to me as the kind of death contemplation that I wanted to add as a compliment to my meditation practice. So I just tried to do it myself. I thought, oh, this will be easy. I'll just think about it five times a day. And what I found was it was actually really hard. We have this pretty stubborn cognitive bias that we don't want to think about mortality all that often and it's hard to do, so I would get through my day and get to the end of the day and realize I hadn't done it even once. Hansa Bergwall: So that was when the idea of something to remind me came about and the idea of WeCroak, the app, which sort of fell into my head as a fully formed idea that honestly I never thought would go anywhere 'cause I'm not a coder and had no way of making it a reality until Ian Thomas, my cofounder, happened to rent my extra room on AirBnB and we got to talking one night and I basically told him/pitched him my idea for WeCroak and he wanted it on his phone, too. He never thought it would go anywhere. And we made it together for the next couple of months, so it happened really quickly and really fortuitously, organically out of me trying to do something that I thought would help. Dr. Bob: That's crazy. So if Ian hadn't rented your room, there's probably a pretty good chance that this never would've come to fruition, right? Were you going to go out and seek an app developer? Had you gotten to that point? Hansa Bergwall: I had. I made a couple of inquiries, and it was going to cost me $10,000 or something like that if I wanted to develop this on my own. And I didn't have that kind of money sitting around, first of all. And, second of all, sounded like a lot of money to spend on something that I was quite skeptical would be broadly popular. So really we made this kind of as almost ... We were talking about it when we started as it was like an art project or something that we really wanted for ourselves, maybe to share with our friends, and we wanted it in the world. That was how we went about it. Dr. Bob: Great. Without any huge expectations or goals that would potentially disappoint you if you didn't achieve them. That's usually the best way to start something. Hansa Bergwall: Yeah, and what it allowed us to do is we stuck to our guns a little bit, the Bhutanese folk saying is five times a day. So we had a lot of people asking, like, oh, shouldn't you toggle it, so people only want one? We're like, but that's not the recommendation. We're going to do this tradition. We're going to do it right. So because we have our day jobs and other ways of making money, we could really make it be something that we thought would be a real mindfulness tool. Dr. Bob: Great. So when did it actually become available? When did you complete the development process and put it up there for people to download? Hansa Bergwall: So I first had it on my phone in August of 2017, and it started right away reminding me five times a day that I'm going to die with a quote that I had picked out. And it was really fun. It was this creation that we had done. There had never been anything like it before. For the first few months, it was just a few of our friends and us. I think there were 80 people on it tops as of a few months later, kind of working with it and enjoying it. And then I do communication and PR for a living, and so I had reached out to just a couple people about the idea, and the Atlantic magazine covered it in December, and that was when it really started to take off in the world, and it has to a huge degree since then, beyond our wildest expectations. Dr. Bob: That's awesome. So how many downloads? I'm sure you're able to track that. How many people have downloaded it at this point? Hansa Bergwall: Yeah, so as of a couple of weeks ago, we just crossed our 40,000th download. Dr. Bob: Wow! Hansa Bergwall: So that means that 40,000 people around the world have elected to pay 99 cents for an app to remind them that they're going to die five times a day and we estimate we're going to deliver our seven millionth reminder on May 7th. There's been a lot of these little reminders going out, interrupting people's days. They happen at randomized times, and that has been the journey since December. It touched a nerve somehow. [inaudible 00:06:53] not the only people that wanted these reminders, wanted to remember that life is precious and time is limited. Dr. Bob: Have you gotten feedback from people? Have you had people who have shared any of what's come up for them or any interesting stories that have come out? Hansa Bergwall: Yeah, of course. It's a strange thing because we know these reminders are going out, seven million of them, and mostly it's like we have no idea how these are affecting people. Except when you hear back from people every once in a while. A very common response is that it helps pull people back to what's important, gives them a little bit of perspective and they use that for everything from getting off addictive social media or technology, to getting out of anger or having better relationships just by not sweating the small stuff as much, to seize the day kind of moments of, hey, I'm just gonna go do this thing I wanted to do because otherwise I may not do it in my life and I want to. Hansa Bergwall: So that's the most common response is people just using reminders to live a little bit better. And then there's this other category of people using it in much more serious positions and those, to be honest, moved me to tears a few times where I'll hear from people who are using it to help them in the grieving process for this woman said her son had passed away, and somehow it was helping. Another woman reached out to say she was having a hard time dealing with a mother dying of dementia and that it was helping her appreciate the time that they did have at the capability that they did, rather than just get into the poor me and my life kind of story. Hansa Bergwall: Just last week I had a young man reach out of the blue to tell me he'd been using it and mourning the death of 20 friends to the opioid epidemic over the last year. It gets out there in the world, and you realize that this kind of information is pretty powerful in that it's useful whether you're just trying to live a little bit better or if you're really facing some of life's hardest moments. Dr. Bob: Such a simple, simple concept to imagine having that kind of impact. Are you getting a sense that it's the reminders that are making more of an impact or the quotes that people are reading and that are touching them? What are your thoughts on that? Or what are you hearing? Hansa Bergwall: I think it's the whole thing. First, we're doing the Bhutanese formulation of just think about it often. Five times a day. That alone is powerful enough if that was all it did. And then the quote part of it is we live in a society where there's a tremendous amount of noise, distraction, technology, addiction, screens, everywhere that keep us from being really present where we are often. So in order to keep it fresh and keep it interesting, we introduced the quotes as well as the randomization of the timing so that it would interrupt you at times you couldn't predict. Kind of like the idea of how an eight ball, it only has maybe eight answers, and yet it can be interesting for quite a long time just because of the randomness of you don't know which one you're going to get. Hansa Bergwall: So that aspect keeps people engaged, on their toes, where just the many coincidences of life, there are those moments where the randomness of the time and the randomness of the quotes selected feels like it's speaking directly to that moment because we have a database of quotes. They're all worth looking at I think, but people never know what kind of quote they're going to get. We have quotes from people writing from the palliative care community or poets or philosophers or meditation teachers or even comedians. So people really don't know are they going to get a funny quote, are they going to get a quote about what it's like at the end of life. So that aspect of surprise I think keeps people from just glazing over and tuning out as quickly as they otherwise might. Dr. Bob: Yeah. I think that's an interesting aspect of it as well, the randomness, the just being open and receptive to receiving something that is kind of unexpected. And it probably says something about each of the people who are willing to pay the 99 cents and download the app is that they are looking for, I guess, input from the universe that could be valuable. My alert went off not long ago and the quote that came up this morning was, "If a man has not discovered something that he dies for, he isn't fit to live." And you know who that was? Hansa Bergwall: I think it's Martin Luther King. Dr. Bob: Exactly, yeah. Hansa Bergwall: Jr, yeah. I do know my quotes. I have a lot of them in there. Dr. Bob: This was a test, and you passed it, but I imagine ... How long will it go before I would see that quote again? Is it months? Hansa Bergwall: Right. Just to give you a little backdoor to the programming stuff. So every time it selects a quote at random from a database of about 400, we're updating to about 500 very soon. And you can get any random quote within that database at any time. However, we make it so that you don't get a repeat within, I think, it's a two week period right now, and I might have to double check that for you, but it's a little while. You can see it again in just a couple weeks if, by luck, that's the one that it selects, but there might be others that you haven't seen at all. We try to keep it so that you can't predict, that you're just on a loop or something like that. Sometimes you might get one every couple weeks just because that's what the ghost in the machine wants to give you, to really put that one in your face. Other times there'll be one that you just haven't gotten because of that randomness. Dr. Bob: Because of randomness. And that's part of the beauty of it. It reminds us of the random nature of life. So it's achieving two things. It's reminding us of our mortality and that we need to be looking at this day as something very special to be grateful for or this hour or this moment. And it also reminds us that, man, things are just random, and as much as we might want to control and predict, that's not really the way it works. Hansa Bergwall: Yeah, we like to say that the reminders can happen any time, just like death. Dr. Bob: Yeah, in my experience, I was an ER doc for 20 plus years, and very early on in my career, I became very clear about just how random life is. I like to say that the vast majority of the people who ended up in the ER that day woke up that morning not expecting that that's how their day was going to go and that's where they were going to end up. It was great life lessons early on for me. And now I'm at the other side of it taking care of people who are at the very end of their life, which is also an incredible classroom for me to be in. So how has this affected your life? What's different now in your life than it was in August when you started this project? Aside from being more aware of the fragility and randomness and that there are people out there who are interested in this. Any other major differences or new trajectories? Hansa Bergwall: Yeah, there are a lot actually. I would say that the wonderful thing about thinking of death often is that it's always true and it's amazing how few things that we know for sure are true in this world that we can really hang a hat on, but this is one. That our time's limited by an unknown amount. We might get the full natural human life cycle or might be much shorter. We don't know. Any decision we make every day, if we're not keeping that close, we're not living on true ground. That makes a big difference, to live life on ground that's more real. I think I'm making better decisions on a day to day basis in a number of areas and there are particular qualities that people have used death contemplation to nurture for a long time that I'm noticing coming up in my own life. I'll give you an example of some things that I've learned. Hansa Bergwall: One is courage, just the courage to do what I want to do, talk about what I want to talk to, make a big move that I want. It's one of those elusive things. Sometimes I think even having an awkward conversation or calling someone out on something that hurt you, or something can feel like an insurmountable burden, but death contemplation kind of gets you there. And I've learned since that samurai used to do daily meditation on all the horrible ways you could die on a battlefield because they knew to truly be the best on a real battlefield, which fighting on true terms meant that you could die any number of ways at any time no matter how good you are and accepting what a battlefield is and that you could die at any time. And by accepting that, you can really find the courage to do what you needed to do. So that's an extreme case, of course, but I'm noticing that I have more courage to just face the daily things that come at me in life. Dr. Bob: But what about the small battles? Hansa Bergwall: The small battles. Battlefields are not part of my life, but everyone has fear to a certain extent, and the courage to get through it is important. Just the sense of appreciation and thankfulness of I'll get a reminder, and I'm walking down the street, and I realize, oh, I'm walking really fast. I think I'm an in a habitual hurry. I'm actually not late for any appointment or anything. Maybe I'll slow down. And it's spring here in New York, and that happened to me just the other day and all the sudden I'm noticing daffodils by the side of the road and birdsong and all the sudden my life is filled with this richness that I was about to just habitually rush through. Hansa Bergwall: And there are others as well. Compassion, to a certain extent. When you are constantly remembering that you are going to die and that is the nature of life, and some misfortune follow someone that you know or something like that, you feel it in the heart a little faster than I did before at least. So all these things that I'm now learning about that people have used, these kinds of practices to nurture, slowly, bit by bit, start to happen in your own life. So I'm more a proponent of this kind of practice than when I started. I think it makes a big material difference in my life and I'm still discovering to all the possibilities of how that's true. Hansa Bergwall: And I think it's a great compliment to things like yoga or meditation practice or these other kinds of things, which are great things to do. I do them. And I think it compliments it because it's that grounded, feet on the ground, real-world kind of stuff, rather than getting off into, say, positive thinking or these things that can maybe take us a little bit away from the truth, which I think can be problematic. Dr. Bob: Yeah, when you contemplate truths, there really is no greater or more concrete truth than I'm going to die. There are no gradients. We don't know how, when, where, but that fact and, like you said earlier, alluded to, there are two absolute truths in life. That we're going to be born, that we were born. We wouldn't be here unless we were. And that we're going to die. And everything else really is kind of up for grabs. They used to say taxes, but we know that that's not necessarily true. So I like that. So, for you, the things that have really become more relevant or solidified in your life are the sense of courage, a sense of gratitude and appreciation in the moment and then compassion, which, if people ... For 99 cents, if people get that without a whole lot of other effort involved other than looking at your phone or device a few times a day, that's a pretty sweet deal. Hansa Bergwall: Yeah, and one thing we're proud of is, because we didn't make this like some of the big tech firms, to make money off of people's attention 'cause it's free with advertising or this or that, we're actually really proud that even though people are getting five notifications a day, even our people who are opening it all the time are spending less than a minute in the app per day. They just read the quote. We're having a pretty big effect for a very small Hansa Bergwall: amount of time. We're really proud of that because there's just so many things that can eat up our precious time, which is or limited life when you really think about it. The average person checks their smartphone 85 times per day, and I think the latest numbers that I heard were people were spending as much as four hours on their mobile devices and computers. Just on their mobile devices, not even computers like that, per day. You can leave 24-hour news on all the time. So there are all these things that can take up so much of your attention all the time, and we can get lost in them, so I'm kinda proud how it just grabs your attention and then lets it go immediately so that you can decide what you want to do with that information. Hansa Bergwall: There are other apps out there that maybe remind you to breathe or notice that you're on social media and like, hey, do you want to stop? To me, that would feel like nagging. I wouldn't tolerate it. Dr. Bob: Yeah, little judgmental. Hansa Bergwall: Yeah, and this is just telling something that's true, and then it's up to you, whoever you are, each person, to decide what you want to do in that moment. Whether to pat yourself on the back, you're doing exactly what you want to be doing, or switch course. Dr. Bob: I love it. I love the simplicity of it and that everybody can take what they choose from it. Are you developing anything else or are you ... Is this going to be leapfrogging you into other realms around this space or are you kinda just going about your other business and allowing this to just be? Hansa Bergwall: This is all so new right now. It's only been a few months that this has been in the world and people such as yourself have wanted to talk to me on such deep and important issues, so I'm still just enjoying the conversation started with this first thing. We have some ideas that are sort of in a square one idea phase right now of ways we could create other fun things for people to play within the mindfulness space, but right now it's a really worthwhile and passion project that I enjoy spending time on. Because of the one time 99 cents download fee, it makes just enough to support the time that I spent on it so that I can easily do it and then the rest ... So far on this project, we like having other sources of income so that this can be, I think, what's really useful as opposed to what will sell really well. Dr. Bob: Yeah, I get it. Well, good for you. I'm excited. Just being part of this space now, you can see that there's so much interest, there's so much need for people to move away from fear and move towards this openness, acceptance, and be part of this broad conversation. So I applaud you for putting it out there and having the courage to ... Even though it started out as more of just a fun project, I think what you've put into the world is meaningful, and you should feel proud ... Or not proud necessarily, but just feel really great about knowing that your efforts are bringing some peace and greater understanding and comfort to people potentially all over the world. Good on you. Hansa Bergwall: Thank you. And I also wanna say that some of the most popular quotes, in terms of people taking screenshots of them so that they can look at them later or share them, are from people writing from the palliative care perspective about common things that people say on their death beds or this conversation of what it's really like to be near the end. I think these perspectives and these conversations are really valuable to people and I'm just honored to pick up on some of the conversations people like yourself are having and get them to more people because people are really responding to them and they're really important. And I've learned a lot from listening to people like you and reading and part of this has been like, wow, there's some amazing thinking and just life philosophy coming out of these people giving care to end of life. Dr. Bob: I really appreciate your time. I know you're busy with your work and your contemplation and anybody who is interested, the app store is waiting for you and just go ahead and search for WeCroak, right? That's pretty much as simple as that. Hansa Bergwall: Yeah, WeCroak. One word. It'll pop up, it's the strawberry frog. Enjoy. Dr. Bob: So, Hansa, thank you so much for your time. You can also access, we'll have a link to this on the Integrated MD Care website. Thank you for your time. Look forward to any future endeavors, and I'm happy to have you as part of this tribe of people that's trying to move the conversation forward. Hansa Bergwall: Yeah, thank you so much.

I have only purchased one app for my phone. I find cell phones to be a necessary nuisance, helpful enough that I keep one, annoying enough that I keep it on silent. I don’t bemoan or resent anyone who has finally found love with their device. I get it. I just find it terribly distracting to the notes of life that I want to pay attention to. Then a friend forwarded me an article on a mobile app called WeCroak. I immediately realized I had been introduced to the perfect app. The gist is this, after handing over a buck to WeCroak, you download the app and then five times a day you receive the following notification: Don’t forget, you’re going to die. Five times a day. The only other feature beyond this mortal reminder is that when you tap on the reminder, a quote appears from a poet, philosopher, author, etc, such as: ‘Let me respectfully remind you: Life and Death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. On this night, the days of our life are decreased by one. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed! Do not squander your life.’ (Evening Gatha) My guest today is one of the creators of the WeCroak app, Hansa Bergwall. Hansa runs a PR agency and is a poet. Our conversation runs the gamut of from Hansa’s inspiration for WeCroak to quotes from RuPaul and Stoic Philosophers on death and impermanence, why I find this app to be most helpful in work meetings, and we try to crack the code why most of the users of WeCroak are under 35. You can learn more about WeCroak at wecroak.com and follow Hansa on Twitter (@buzznature).

The WeCroak app, which sends reminders that you're going to die -- five times a day, is not meant to be morbid, founder Hansa Bergwall said, but to make us stop and appreciate the moment we're living in. "Remembering that you're going to die is really important," said Bergwall, a publicist, writer and meditation teacher in Brooklyn, who was 11 years old when his mother died. "Sometimes that's all it takes to take a deep breath, change the program and do something different, feel something different."

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